Mayor calls for strategies to mitigate climate change. The municipality called the summit to study the impact of changing weather patterns on coastal communities, and to find strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change. [News Source]

Clownfish lost at sea due to rising carbon dioxide levels. Tests on clownfish larvae showed they became disoriented and were unable to find a suitable place to live if they were raised in seawater that had absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. [News Source]

Acid oceans no laughing matter for clownfish. Just a few days after 150 marine scientists signed a declaration to draw attention to rising ocean acidity – dubbed "global warming's evil twin" – an international team has reported the first example of the potential for acid seas to directly affect animal behaviour. [News Source]

Blow for energy proposal. The state's first industrial biomass energy plant is under a cloud after major electricity companies have decided not to recognise it as an accredited supplier of renewable power. [News Source]

Snags in the plan. Plans to fight global warming through reforestation have raised concerns among forest-dependent communities. [News Source]

U study: Corn ethanol no better than gas. Corn ethanol is no better fuel than gasoline, and it may even be worse for air quality, according to a new University of Minnesota study, the first one to estimate the economic costs to human health and well-being from gasoline and two types of ethanol. [News Source]

The green mirage. In an effort to rebrand the city and foster the ecotourism market, Tourism Minister Zoheir Garrannah intends to turn Sharm El-Sheikh into Egypt's first carbon neutral destination, meaning that its net output of carbon dioxide will be zero. [News Source]

Legislature 2009: GOP, Dems ready CO2 storage bills. The Schweitzer administration is supporting a new bill to lay down the rules on storing carbon-dioxide underground in Montana - and legislative Republicans are preparing their own approach as well. [News Source]

American business not green enough, report says. American businesses are talking the green talk, but they aren't walking the green walk enough, the author of the "State of Green Business 2009" report said Monday. [News Source]

Towns discuss global warming threat. About 700 Vermonters came out on Sunday to hear a serious warning about the future, laced with some faint possibilities of hope delivered by Sen. Bernard Sanders and environmental activist and author Bill McKibben. [News Source]

Marketing solar panels to fifth-graders. Employees of the Sharp Electronics Corporation were at Joyce Kilmer Elementary School in Mahwah, N.J., recently to teach a lesson on climate change and renewable energy. [News Source]